What type of onion

[RpR]

For the first time since the seventies, I am doing my happy dance, think of the chick from Seinfeld, my onions are not laughing at me.

Most of my onions are larger than tennis balls for the first time in decades. Even ones that survived the winter and were replanted.

Some are nearly three inches across.
I grew some large Texas sweet way back in the seventies but since then my best were pathetic; this year, and I really have not changed anythng, I have large onions.
I bought a bundle of brown skin onions, and that is all I know about what type they were as I was thinking why waste the time to be humiliated, planted where I always do and waited for them to be pathetic as usual but after my third weeding I thought darn, these are healthy and looking good. So beyond weeding I stayed away from them.
Success.

[richardw]

Do you store your onions or leave them in the ground RpR.

The onions first mentioned in the thread have been replanted again along with a few Pukehohe Long Keepers so as to cross the two together. The first of the spring warming is only a week or so away.

[RpR]

Aug 12, 2016 15:50:17 GMT -5 richardw said:

Do you store your onions or leave them in the ground RpR.

The onions first mentioned in the thread have been replanted again along with a few Pukehohe Long Keepers so as to cross the two together. The first of the spring warming is only a week or so away.

The carry overs are ones I find in the spring that were just sprouting in the fall or I simply ignored.

Usually four to a dozen.
I transplant them to a different area; sometimes they are a cluster onion that I separate into individual plants.
You cannot leave large onions in the ground as they will be destroyed by frost.
The survivors are small and with bulbs deep in the ground with rare exeptions depending on winter temps and snow depth.